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Famous people · Winona
Winona Ryder and 27 more famous people were born in Winona
Winona Ryder, the American actress, has articles in 100 languages. The next two names are Tracy Caulkins and Carol Bartz. Between 1920 and 1969, 15 were born, the most of any period. Over 118 years of births, the list goes from William D. Mitchell (1874) to Alec Brown (1992).
Born here
28
notable people
Best known
Winona Ryder
in 100 Wikipedia languages
First
1874
William D. Mitchell
Youngest
1992
Alec Brown
Most common field
Sports
9 people
Also called it home
1
notable residents
What stands out about Winona’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Winona
First, Winona Ryder (100 languages), then Tracy Caulkins (23) and Carol Bartz (17).
#2Sports
Tracy Caulkins
born 1963American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, world champion, former world record-holder, Order of Australia recipient
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#3Through the years
When Winona’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1960s, at 3.
SportsPolitics & LawNotableWriting & ArtsBusinessScience & MedicineFilm, TV & StageFaith
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Winona is known for
The field with the most names is Sports: 9.
The usual town: the share across everyone born in the towns gathered so far. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Winona
Here are 25 more, born from 1874 to 1992.
Clint Wager
1920–1996American sportsperson, gridiron football player and basketball player
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Paul Giel
1932–2002American football and baseball player, college athletics administrator
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A chosen home
Also called Winona home
Born elsewhere, Leo Smith lived here.
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Next door
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Close by, Buffalo counts one famous person.
From Wikidata and Wikipedia: people whose birthplace is Winona and whose English Wikipedia article agrees, ranked by how many Wikipedia languages cover each person. People known mainly for crimes, and adult performers, aren’t listed. “The usual town” = everyone born in the towns gathered so far.
Photo credits (10)
- Tracy Caulkins: Anefo / Antonisse, Marcel, CC BY-SA 3.0 nl, Wikimedia Commons
- Carol Bartz: Yahoo! Blog from Sunnyvale, California, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- James Earle Fraser: Unidentified photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William D. Mitchell: Underwood & Underwood, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas H. Moodie: "The Circleville Herald" (Circleville, Ohio)., CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Garrett Heath: U.S. Army, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jeremy Miller: Stc56955, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Paul Giel: Bowman Gum, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Fred Risser: Political Graveyard from Ann Arbor, MI, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Fred Carisch: Chicago Daily News, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons